Improvement in coffee-pots



TTNITED STATES PATENT (mr-Icac WILLIAM WESTLAKE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT INCOFFEE-POTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,51 S, dated October2, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WEsTLAKE, of the city of Chicago, in theState of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement onCodec-Pots; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and marks thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings, which form part ot' this specification, is avertical sectional View of a coffee-pot constructed under myimprovement, Figs. 2, 3, 4, and heilig views of scrapers and strainersused with the cotl'eepot.

The body of the pot, for the lower and larger portion a, is of conicalor ta pcring form, whereby the usual increase of surface at the bottomis secured for exposure to heat, while the lesser and upper portion, b,is cylindrical, the object of the cylindrical portion being for givingfacility to the use of the combined scraper and strainer c.

In boiling coiee, at least onethird of the ground coft'ee comes to thetop ot' the water, and collects all the way down from the cover to thesurface ot' the water. By making the upper portion, b, cylindrical, thescraper and strainer may be readily and conveniently used, which itcould not so be used if the upper portion was tapering, like thelowerportion. The scraper c is not used until the coffee is made and the potplaced on the table, when, by pass-l ing the scraper down, all thecoit'ee collected on the inner surface of this upper portion of the potwill be forced down, and when the coffee is drawn oft1 it will bestrained and be perfectly. free and clear.

The figures show a circular and a halt-ciri cular strainer. The irstnamed, (represented by Fig. 4,) it will be noticed, has a bar, d, acrossits center, which, while it strengthens the strainer, also serves forpassing it down and for holding it in place. The scraper and strainers,as is indicated by Figs. 2 and 3, are of cupped form.

In the ends ot' the bar d, and at diagonallyopposite points, arerecesses e, which tit against wires f in the pot, to guide down thescraper. Between the lower ends of the wires f and the inner projection,g, of the pot, at thepoint of union ot' the two portions thereof, thereis a small space, so that when down the scraper may be slightly turned,and the ends of the bars be pressed under the wires j', and thus thescraper be held in a locked condition. The inner projection, g, servesas a bearing or support to the strainer.

In the half-circular srainer grooves 7L, in the upright pieces of thehandle, tit the Wiresf. Fig. 5 of the drawings indicates the line of thegrooves and handle. In the circular scraper and strainer the handler iscentrally attached.

What Iclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination with the cylindrical portion of a coffee-pot, thescraper and strainer constructed and operated herein set forth.

2. The combination of the bar d, havingthe recesses e, with the wires fand projection g, for guiding and locking the scraper and strainer,

as set forth.

A WILLIAM WESTLAKE. Witnesses:

DANIEL GOODWIN, J r. E. HURD.

